He look real bad in the morning. I thought he wasn't going to play. But he's a tough dude and he's not going to let that stop him. |
He's hit a lot of shots like that since he's been here. I kind of had a feeling he would hit it. |
I definitely didn't want the season to end like this, but we have to keep playing. We have to make a run and put ourselves in the best position possible. |
I didn't want it to end. I didn't want to go out today. I want to keep playing. I just wanted to come out here, give a good effort, and help my team come away with a win. |
I thought it was going to go in. |
It was big for us getting a road win coming off two losses. You love to have games like this. |
It's definitely going to be a test, but we've proven that we can beat a ranked team. |
It's going to come together here soon. |
Our confidence is high. We just feel we can beat any team that we play on any night. |
That shot Diaz hit, that 3-pointer -- man, that was the heartbreaker. We were just more aggressive than North Carolina. Diaz is a great player. I mean we look for him all the time because he makes it happen. |
That was a big-time play, but we were still in the game. We were up one, we just needed to get some stops. |
We definitely wanted to cut his water off and shut him down. He's a key player on their team. Once we did that, we knew the rest of the guys would have a tough time if we just played solid. But Johnson played very well tonight and their guards hit some big shots as well. |
We just stayed poise as a team. We knew we had five minutes left (in overtime period) and that's a lot of time. |
We knew they were capable of shooting, it was just a matter of us getting out and contesting shots. They made shots we just didn't get out. Our defensive intensity wasn't the same as it was in the first half. We were very active in the first half, getting our hands on balls. We didn't do that in the second half. |
We knew they were capable shooters. It was just a matter of us not getting out and contesting the shots. They made shots and we didn't get stops when we needed to. |